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Why such dull colours? Oh I forgot, it's created by programmers :-P
I'm not by any means a designer, but from my art background I can tell you that changing the orange top-bar of stackoverflow, you've caused a collapse of the design regarding the rest of the colours. The design needs the orange top bar and not a grey one.
If there's one thing I hate about programmers (or interface designers) its their denial of colour and their imposition of their insipid dull-arsed taste on the rest of us.
OK, so you don't like the colors, fine.
So provide us with a mockup or CSS of what you think would look better. That'd be more constructive than just complaining.
As balpha said, the bar was always grey; if it were the standard SO orange it would look like this:
I'll go ahead and cast a vote now for not making it look like that
NB: I'm a programmer and lack any form of an art background, so it's possible my dislike of the above stems from my denial of colour and my imposition of my insipid dull-arsed taste on the rest of you
I disagree completely; the SO interface is clear and provides all the information its users need. In particular, the absence of Orange on the page makes the appearance of an Orange alert across the top catch one's eye, like an alert should.
If the top-bar was Orange, one may not notice when Orange alerts appear at the top of the screen.
If you really want more color, you could use SO through some sort of Geocities-izer proxy. The result isn't that bad:
;)
I do not come to Stack Overflow to be "Wowed" by the color scheme.
I want an unobtrusive, information dense, easy to navigate layout and color selection.
In short, "dull" is not exactly a goal, but "exciting" is definitely bad.
Oh, and
If there's one thing I hate about programmers (or interface designers) its their denial of colour and their imposition of their insipid dull-arsed taste on the rest of us.
::insert your favorite rude dismissal::
I say, seriously, get a life. When I visit these so-called "dull, colorless'' sites, I'm here to learn, organize, and share information, not to appreciate art and design...besides, more graphics or bright colors would be very distracting and detract from the main purpose of the site. And I'm not even a programmer. Just a geek and photographer, thankyouverymuch.
and if that bar was orange, ugh, that would really be a glareful.
